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Best Books for Boys: Stardines

For boys who love Jack Prelusky, who wrote such greats as A Pizza the Size of the Sun (our personal favorite), there comes another book destined to become a classic among kids.

Stardines is a fun book with made up “creatures” that are part real animal and part inanimate. For example you will discover Tattlesnakes, Sobcats, Bluffaloes and Magpipes.

One thing that I always love about Mr. Prelustsky’s poems is that he doesn’t dumb things down. He uses great words such as: illuminate, preposterously (I think he really likes that one) frivolity, gaiety, ebullient, and cavort. His poems amuse us every time.

I am rather fond of JollyFish—in this poem he claims that:

JOLLYFISH possess the gift of fundamental glee—

There’s no creature half as happy
At the bottom of the sea.

And ya know what? I believe him 🙂

Prelusky is joined in this book by illustrator Carin Berger. I am so glad to have discovered her. Her illustrations deserve special mention. They are multi-media type illustrations that are unusual and compelling.

On the copyright page of Stardines the illustrations are listed as miniature dioramas and assemblages created using combos of a variety of items including vintage engravings, beeswax, paper, wire, etc.

We just might have to create a dioramas soon and we will definitely be on the lookout for more from Carin Berger.

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